Commonwealth Games 2022 LIVE: Laura Muir storms to 1500m gold after England win women’s hockey title

Claudia Fragapane has certainly taken the long road back to the podium but now she’s got there again she admits her race could be nearly run.

In Glasgow eight years ago, she became the first Englishwoman in 84 years to win four gold medals at the Commonwealth Games. This was followed by a world medal and a sequinned bid for the Glitterball with an appearance on Strictly Come Dancing.

But gymnastics is a sport based on the premise of what comes up must come down and those soaring highs were soon followed by crushing lows. She announced she was quitting the sport, aged just 18, after failing to make the final at the Rio Olympics.

Fragapane returned but then suffered a series of career-threatening injuries, missing the defence of her Commonwealth titles in 2018 with an Achilles injury and suffering a serious concussion in training that ended her bid for last year’s Tokyo Olympics.

All of which meant her victory as part of England’s women’s gymnastics team, alongside Kelly Simm, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Alice Kinsella and Ondine Achampong, had extra significance.

Duncan Scott claimed revenge on Tom Dean by beating him to victory in the men’s 200 metres freestyle final at the Commonwealth Games, as Adam Peaty kept on course for a third consecutive gold in the 100m breaststroke.

Scott, swimming for Scotland at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, had missed out to Dean in the Olympic final in Tokyo last year but triumphed on Saturday night in a time of one minute 45.02 seconds, with Dean taking silver for England in 1:45.41.

Dean led at halfway but Alloa swimmer Scott, who won four medals in total in Japan last summer, came roaring back to secure victory.

Scott also claimed a bronze in the 400m individual medley while Dean was part of the England men’s 4x100m freestyle relay team which took silver in the last race.

The 25-year-old Scott, who became the first Briton to win four medals in the same Olympic Games in Tokyo, said he and Dean were good mates and that their rivalry spurred them both on.

A couple of hockey matches to update you on. In the women’s competition, India beat Wales 3-1 in a tense encounter.

In the final match of the day, again in the women’s competition, Scotland are giving New Zealand all they can handle. Heavy favourites NZ lead in the final quarter but it’s only 1-0. Can Scotland snatch an equaliser?

A low-scoring, intense quarter-final in the men’s rugby sevens between Australia and Samoa. It ends 7-0 to Australia as a solitary, second-half try proved enough.

It means Australia will play South Africa and New Zealand face Fiji in the semi-finals tomorrow afternoon before the bronze-medal match and gold-medal match in the evening.

The final event of the evening in the swimming pool and it’s another SILVER for Team England behind Australia in a 4x100m freestyle relay, this time for the men.

An enthralling race as there’s nothing to choose between England, Canada and Australia for the first two legs - Lewis Burras and Jacob Whittle going for England.

The third leg saw William Yang edge the Aussies ahead as James Guy kept England in second before Tom Dean desperately tried to catch Kyle Chalmers on the anchor leg and although Dean closed the gap, Australia took gold in a Commonwealth Games record time.

Canada took bronze just ahead of Wales.

To confirm the women’s team gymnastics podium, where England took a brilliant gold and Wales fell just short of bronze.

GOLD - England 161.100

SILVER - Australia 158.000

BRONZE - Canada 152.700

Wrapping up a couple of the other men’s rugby sevens quarter-finals. South Africa triumphed 33-0 against Canada and New Zealand beat Kenya 31-0.

The last, most eagerly anticipated quarter-final sees Samoa take on Australia and that’s happening shortly.

SILVER for Team England in the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay. Australia were a class apart to win gold in 3:30.64, almost six seconds clear of England.

But the English quartet of Anna Hopkins, Abbie Wood, Isabella Hindley and Freya Anderson held off Canada to take an impressive silver.

It’s been absolutely electric at the gymnastics this evening, with the women’s team final taking place. The crowd have been roaring Team England on as they look to match the men’s gold from last night.

A 12.600 on floor for Australia’s Breanne Scott keeps them hot on England’s heels but Alice Kinsella smashes a vault to score 13.900 before Ondine Achampong hits an absolutely incredible vault! It scores a mammoth 14.150 and that takes England’s total to an unassailable 161.000.

That will be GOLD for England! A brilliant performance from Kinsella, Achampong, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Claudia Fragapane and Kelly Simm.

Australia will earn silver and the battle for bronze now comes down to the final couple of performances from Wales and Canada.

The medals keep on coming in the pool for the home nations as Brodie Williams wins SILVER in the men’s 100m backstroke.

It’s an incredibly close race that basically all comes down to the touch and South Africa’s Pieter Coetze is able to take gold in 53.78s, 013s ahead of England’s Williams.

Australia’s Bradley Woodward finishes third to win bronze